Stevens is a global leader in systems design and integration techniques that enable a more informed, more intelligent and more responsive world.

Complex systems, such as healthcare delivery, transportation, and urban infrastructures are laced with behavioral and social phenomena: values, norms, precedents and vested interests. Complexity in these systems compromises the ability to predict their behaviors and to establish the causality of behaviors.

Stevens pursues increased understanding of these complex systems, improving their operations and adding to the value delivered to our constituencies. The performance, safety, security and economics of systems involve the interplay between humans and machines, including the ability to foster learning new systems. Our faculty employ models, simulations and interactive visualizations to construct policy simulators that enable key stakeholders to explore the complexity of their domains, assess the consequences of various scenarios and work with multi-disciplinary teams to analyze systemic policies, evaluate underlying assumptions, entertain alternative decisions and reach well-informed conclusions.

Related Research Centers

Atlantic Center for the Innovative Design & Control of Small Ships (ACCeSS)

ACCeSS establishes an environment where engineering disciplines associated with hull design and ship automation are brought together within the context of the total ship system architecture.

Center for Complex Systems & Enterprises

The goal of the Center for Complex Systems & Enterprises (CCSE) is to enable rapid conceptualization, development and validation of multi-level computational models with associated interactive visualizations. This trans-disciplinary Center mobilizes the research vision, experience, talent, creativity and capabilities across Stevens and our many collaborators.

Center for Innovation in Engineering & Science Education (CIESE)

CIESE leverages and strengthens STEM disciplinary and pedagogical expertise for K-12 and Higher Education through research on teaching and learning; professional development for educators; and curriculum design.

Davidson Laboratory

The Davidson Lab is Stevens Institute of Technology's renowned marine research laboratory, which operates in two primary areas: marine monitoring and forecasting and experimental marine hydrodynamics (ship design and evaluation).

Maritime Security Center (MSC)

In 2014, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate selected Stevens Institute of Technology as the lead university in the Maritime Security Center (MSC). The MSC provides education programs and conducts research to enhance port and maritime security.

Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC)

In 2008, the Department of Defense (DoD) competitively awarded Stevens a contract to operate the SERC-UARC, housed within the Systems Engineering Research Center (SERC), in order to enhance and enable the development, integration, testing and sustainability of complex defense systems, services and enterprises. The SERC-UARC consists of 22 collaborating institutions.

Related Academic Programs

Stevens' academic programming in resilience and sustainability touches upon civil, mechanical, environmental and ocean engineering; sciences such as physics, hydrology and fluid mechanics; and options in management.